[nflug] for the top posters

Tyler Poland tyler.poland at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 08:01:58 EDT 2008


Same here.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
> I'm a Top-Poster simply because I can remember what other people were
> talking about when they reply to me and want to see the next part of the
> conversation first... don't need to re-read everything.
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>>
>> Q: (original) This is probably your text, but we'll make you read this
>> first anyway, just in case you forgot what you typed initially.
>> A: (reply) OK, now that I've refreshed myself in what was originally said,
>> I can read your reply now, good thing I have a scroll wheel.....
>>
>> <snip>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>> <snip>
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> Bottom posts confuse people who are used to instant messaging ....I was
> thinking of writing a program that would allow people to left-side post, but
> that would break the 80 character rule, oh well.
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